Halted anthrax shots have Spokane connection

"… the United States cannot demand that members of the armed forces also serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs."

-- U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in an injunction Monday halting compulsory anthrax shots for military personnel

There's a Spokane connection here. Hollister-Stier, a Spokane company, fills sterilized vials with the anthrax vaccine, which is made elsewhere.

More than 1 million people have received the anthrax vaccine from the Defense Department since 1998. Some service members have been court-martialed when they refused the series of six injections. Read more.